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Grade: 8 Unit: 3 Week: 4 Content: ELA Dates: 12/17-12/21

Theme: Looking Back on America

Theme Essential Question: How does learning history through literature differ from learning through informational text?

Essential Questions:

How historical events impact people and the society where they live?
How different formats of the same event influence your views and opinions about that event? Do they change? Why or why not?

Focus Standards

8.R.L.9 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new.
8.L.3 Knowledge of Language: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

Ongoing Standards

8.R.L.5 Craft and Structure: Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style.
8.R.I.6 Craft and Structure: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
8.R.I.8 Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.

Objectives

Determine an author’s point of view in a text and discuss the impact it has on what was written.
Compare and contrast story characters, plots, themes, and settings from stories about American history.

Assessment
Project

using information from all of the resources, create you own story, article, poem, and commercial using the Little Rock as your theme.
Reading Log – respond to independent and assigned reading
Compare and Contrast “Warriors Don’t Cry” by Melba Neals, Newsweek Article of 50 Year Commemoration of the Little Rock Nine, “Fire From the Rock” by Sharon Draper, and “Soul Make a Path Through Shouting” poem by Cyrus Cassells

Key Questions (match Standard)

How do historical events impact people and the society where they live?
How do different formats of the same event influence your views and opinions about that event? Do they change? Why or why not?

Observable Student Behaviors (Performance)

Vocabulary

ELA

Point of view
Compare/contrast
Literary devices/elements
Tone
Author’s purpose
Plot
Setting
Genre
Types of poems

Suggested Activities [see Legend to highlight MCO and HYS]

Write a summary of two or more texts/events providing similarities and differences.
Students brainstorm what is significant about the time they are living in and what do they think people in the future will discover, if researching this time period? (events, people, inventions) Have groups record ideas then carrousel out. Groups can then take a perspective and plan a presentation.

Homework

Terminology for Teachers

Lesson Plan in Word Format (Click Cancel if asked to Log In)

Resources
Professional Texts

Literary Texts

Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Neals

Informational Texts

Art, Music, and Media

Manipulatives

Games

Videos

Field Trip to Central High Museum

Sight Words

SMART Board Lessons, Promethean Lessons

Other Activities, etc.

Soul Make a Path Through Shouting - http://lauramatthewscs.blogspot.com/2008/02/little-rock-nine.html
Newsweek Article about the Little Rock Nine http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2007/09/18/little-rock-50-years-later.html

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